Trump Says He May Wait to Announce VP at July GOP Convention

Published on May 16, 2024

As anticipation builds for who former President Donald Trump will choose as his 2024 running mate, the 45th president said in an interview released Thursday he would likely announce it at the Republican Convention this summer. The convention is slated for July in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a key battleground state in the 2024 election that President Trump won in 2016 but narrowly lost to President Joe Biden in 2020. “That’s probably a pretty good chance, I would say,” President Trump said in an interview with Scripps News released on Thursday, in reference to whether or not he would announce his pick at the convention. “I don’t say anything is 100 percent, but you’re getting pretty close. I’ll be doing it in Milwaukee.”...

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